Structural disorder and the loss of rna homeostasis in aging and neurodegenerative disease

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Gray, Douglas A ^a,b   Woulfe, John ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Intrinsic disorder; Neurodegeneration; Proteasome; RNA binding proteins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883514164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00149     Document Type: Review

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